This function is needed for the KVMI_VM_PAUSE_VCPU command, which sets
the introspection request flag, kicks the vCPU out of guest and returns
a success error code (0). The vCPU will send the KVMI_VCPU_EVENT_PAUSE
event as soon as possible. Once the introspection tool receives the event,
it knows that the vCPU doesn't run guest code and can handle introspection
commands (until the reply for the pause event is sent).
To implement the "pause VM" command, the introspection tool will send
a KVMI_VM_PAUSE_VCPU command for every vCPU. To know when the VM is
paused, userspace has to receive and "parse" all events. For example,
with a 4 vCPU VM, if "pause VM" was sent by userspace while handling
an event from vCPU0 and at the same time a new vCPU was hot-plugged
(which could send another event for vCPU4), the "pause VM" command has
to receive and check all events until it gets the pause events for vCPU1,
vCPU2 and vCPU3 before returning to the upper layer.
In order to make it easier for userspace to implement the "pause VM"
command, KVMI_VM_PAUSE_VCPU has an optional 'wait' parameter. If this is
set, kvm_vcpu_kick_and_wait() will be used instead of kvm_vcpu_kick().
Once a sequence of KVMI_VM_PAUSE_VCPU commands with the 'wait' flag set
is handled, the introspection tool can consider the VM paused, without
the need to wait and check events.
Signed-off-by: Adalbert Lazăr <alazar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 1 +
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 60a35d9fe259..6795ea7e357d 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -970,6 +970,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_blocking(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_arch_vcpu_unblocking(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
bool kvm_vcpu_wake_up(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_vcpu_kick(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
+void kvm_vcpu_kick_and_wait(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
int kvm_vcpu_yield_to(struct kvm_vcpu *target);
void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool usermode_vcpu_not_eligible);
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 3f6d450355f0..85f2dd8a79d1 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3343,6 +3343,16 @@ void kvm_vcpu_kick(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_kick);
#endif /* !CONFIG_S390 */
+void kvm_vcpu_kick_and_wait(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ if (kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu))
+ return;
+
+ if (kvm_request_needs_ipi(vcpu, KVM_REQUEST_WAIT))
+ smp_call_function_single(vcpu->cpu, ack_flush, NULL, 1);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_kick_and_wait);
+
int kvm_vcpu_yield_to(struct kvm_vcpu *target)
{
struct pid *pid;
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